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Space will not permit a review of what the Northern 

 traveler has contributed, not only to the various 

 branches of science, but to our actual welfare. Man 

 has been content to leave home, to live in savage 

 places, to plod along through deep snows, to land 

 upon primeval shores, to suffer privations and dis- 

 comforts, and all this in order to add his mite to 

 the sum of the world knowledge. And man will con- 

 tinue to do these foolish things and to undergo these 

 useless hardships until the sum of human knowledge is 

 complete. 



We hope that our four years in the North have added 

 something to the world's storehouse which may be of 

 interest and value, geographically and scientifically. 

 Summed up, the results stand as follows: 



1. The disproving of the existence of Crocker Land 

 as placed upon our latest maps. 



2. Evidence of the existence of new land far to the 

 west of our last camp on the Polar Sea. 



3. A survey of a previously unexplored stretch of 

 coast-line on the northwest shores of Axel Heiberg 

 Island. 



4. Exploration and survey of the Greely Fiord. 



5. The first attainment of King Christian Island, a 

 land seen in 1900 by the Sverdrup Expedition. 



6. A survey of the northern, eastern, and part of the 

 southern shores of North Cornwall. 



7. A survey of the eastern coast of Ellesmere Land 

 from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head. 



8. The discovery of nine new islands. 



9. A resurvey of the North Greenland coast from 

 McCormick Bay to Rensselaer Harbor. 



10. A detailed survey with soundings of Foulke Fiord. 



